Food Log 10/5/2007 and Date night and other stuff

First off my food log
Breakfast -
1 oz cheese
1 slice whole wheat cinnamon toast
2 cups coffee

Lunch - 2 slices veggie pizza, 1 slice meat pizza, Coke Zero

Dinner - to come (date night with Hubby but I plan to get a salad where ever we go)
spinach and articoke dip with tortilla chips.
Grilled Chicken salad with gorgonzola cheese, dried cranberries & a vingerett.

dessert - shared piece of green tea cheese cake with hubby and had decaf coffee with cream

I called and asked my niece to baby sit for us tonight so that is nice. We haven't been out to a movie in a while. There is nothing out there I'm just dying to see, but I can't pass up a night out with the hubby. Not so good news...i have taken a couple of PG tests this week and all negative. I'm bummed. I was hoping this would happen faster. It did last time, but patience isn't one of my virtues and maybe I need to get a little more.

Food Journal 10/4/2007

Breakfast
grapes (about 12)
whole wheat toast with melted cheese
1oz of cheddar cheese.
2 cups coffee

Lunch
italian wrap from schlotzsky's
cracked pepper chips
coke zero

snack piece of pecan pie (hubby didn't take it to work)

dinner
beef and turkey chili on a bun.

Inspiration

I love stories like this. She has lost 95 lbs and kept is off for 1.5 years and now she is going back to school to help others. If I ever went back to school, I would go back and get a degree in nutrition. I feel like there is so much for me to learn about nutrition.

I think stories like this just reinforce that little steps over the long haul can make a big difference. It is about a lifestyle change and not just dieting.

Food Journal 10/3/2007

Weigh in day was today and I weighed 176.8. I'm still happy to see that number. It wasn't up too much.

Food Log
Breakfast - Activa low fat peach yogurt and 1/2 English Muffin with Almond butter
2 cups coffee - 1 splenda and creamer

Snack - snack size bag of Chex Mix (210) and some olive tapanad.

Lunch - Wendy's grilled chicken sandwich, fries and iced tea

dinner - whatever hubby cooks (LOL!) tonight he cooked Chicken Cordon Bleu (from Costco) brown rice and zuchini and other veggies.

Last update...Hubby had a sweet tooth and I had low will power. He went to the store and bought a WHOLE PECAN PIE. Uggggghhhh!!! Yes, I had a piece, a relatively small piece and my best estimate on calories is 250. Hubby promised to take the pie to work today.

Biggest Loser

I just loved it tonight on BL during the blue teams time at a real 24 hour fitness, when Bob was in everyone's face telling them they could do it and how they deserved it! OH MAN! If I could just get Bob's pep-talk on my ipod, I would play it and push myself.

I can pep-talk myself to death sometimes, but usually it is not when I am actually working out. When I am actually working out, it is more like. "Oh, I don't want to get over heated"...."Not sure if I should push myself that much today...maybe another time." I have a million excuses. But oh if I could get Bob to yell at me...man the things I could accomplish ; ) HA!

I was bummed, along with Bob, that the Blue team didn't even try to do the challenge and that they were going to leave it up to the other teams to pick who went home.

I am guessing the "campus" is closed for spring break. It should be a good show next week.

Props to the Black team for stay 6 strong another week, but their time is coming....it has to.

I think overall my money is still on Phil, but I also like the twin brothers. They could go all the way.

I was so happy for Julie (I think it was Julie) on the Black team because she has had low numbers every week and keeps plugging away and this week it paid off for her.

Benefits of keeping a food journal

I go back and forth (and back and forth and then back again) on keeping a food log. But I have come to realized that is really does help me keep on track with my eating.

I really keeps me honest about what I am eating and makes it harder for me to forget when I slip up. So here I go again. I will be trying to log my food here everyday.

Some links on benefits of keeping a food journal

1) Quakers Oats

2) Yahoo

I am also trying to change my taste buds for sweet. I am cutting down the Splenda I add to coffee and tea. My diet soda comsumption is down too. I will have one here and there but not as many as I used to have. Ooooo more news. I brought my walking clothes today so I can walk after work today. I haven't done this for well over a week.

I will come back and edit this post to include the rest of my food for the day, but so far....

Breakfast

Whole wheat English muffin with almond butter

Decaf Ice tea with 1 splenda

Coffee with 1 splenda and little cup of creamer (15 cals)

snack

5 green olives, 1 kalamata olive (with pits)

Kashi TLC trail mix granola bar (140 cals)

Lunch

small bag of baked lays (140 cals)

turkey breast on whole wheat sandwich

raspberry limon ice tea

Dinner

spinach ravioli with extra spinach and cherry tomatoes

1 slice whole wheat toast

decaf ice tea

Dessert

1 scoop coffee ice cream

(full disclosure - i had a few bites of little one scoop too)

Star

Twix was ever so sweet in awarding me this blogging star award on her blog. I have been a little out of touch this last week or so, so it means a lot that she thought of me.

I would like to pass this along to some fellow bloggers that inspire me with their posts.

Lady T and Something to chew on.